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The Farnese Table
Designer Designed by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola
Maker Marble piers carved by Guglielmo della Porta
Maker Pietre Dure top attributed to Giovanni Mynardo (Jean Ménard)
ca. 1565–73
- Medium
- Marble of different colors, semiprecious stones, Egyptian alabaster, residue of paint of different colors on the piers
- Classification
- Sculpture-Architectural
- Dimensions
- Overall: 37 1/2 in. × 12 ft. 5 1/4 in. × 66 1/4 in. (95.3 × 379.1 × 168.3 cm) South base/support confirmed: 1306 lb. (592.4 kg) Center base/support, confirmed: 1266 lb. (574.3 kg) North base/support, confirmed: 1321 lb. (599.2 kg)
- Culture
- Italian
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1958
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed